Shortly before his death in August 1993, Edward Thompson completed this selection of essays and review articles. The 'persons' include sketches of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Morris, Christopher Caudwell and Eleanor Marx. The essays range over his vast range of inquiry; from working class history to political theory, the peace movement and contemporary society. As ever, as a historian and commentator, Thompson is erudite, penetrating, scholarly, and eminently readable. A real treasure.